[rrd-developers] [PATCH] Add create and info to rrdupdate

[Sven-Göran Bergh]

Dear List,


we have the need to incorporate generation/updates of RRD files in
an embedded environment. However, there are a few dependencies that
ruin our plan, most notably libxml2 and libglib. Even a minimal
build (--disable-*) still has these dependencies.


What we need is just to create and update RRDs. All graphing is
interactive and handled in the web GUI. I have also seen similar
needs expressed regarding restricted environments. The rrdupdate
standalone utility is a good start, but it lacks the ability to
create RRDs.


The proposed patch (attached) adds two features to rrdupdate:
info and create. This is done by invoking the binary with different
names (ala BusyBox). For this, two symbolic links, rrdcreate and
rrdinfo, are used. The size of a stripped rrdupdate is increased
from 80kB to 88kB (libc on i386), but that is a small sacrifice
compared with rrdtool + dependencies (minimal build >2.0MB).


My auto[voodoo] skills are limited and so is my insight in the
rrdtool code, so any comments are most welcome.


Brgds
/S-G
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